How did you choose your username?

I had an email address of the same name that I used for the grandchildren to email me and I couldn't think of anything else.

I've posted this before so apologies
My name is memory.
Sitting in the shade under our
cherry tree holding my first grandchild.
He was born in the middle of a very hot July.
Plus my birth year

This is mine. A favourite fishing fly!

'Nanny' because that is what DGD calls me and'Kasey' as its my initials

mine came about because it kept rejecting the names i put so I got annoyed and put whatanuiscanceabc123. one of the GNers said that she felt it was selfdeprecating so the name was shortened, then Jingles pestered GNHQ to shorten it to wot!! Long story but now got a nice short username!!

I remember all that wot !
Grannylyn is what I am but no longer 65 !! (68)

Mine is because I had two grandchildren born at the same time. Having twins is TwiceasNice

Well I used to be Daphne Broon after one of my all time favourite families, but left GN and when I came back I had to choose another name so I asked my maw and she said she didnae mind. (Maggie Broon was too glamorous and flighty!)

I have a family of mad boys and no imagination!!

I've been here since the beginning, so no names were taken at that point!

Why phoenix? Because I always hope/try to rise from the ashes, with varying degrees of success!

Because I am

I think it was much easier in the early days. Choosing a name now would be bewildering phoenix. Mine is a nickname and a city no so far away. The nickname is no longer used but I've become quite fond of it!

Mine because I like them and I wish I could do it like when a teenager Hulahoop I mean☺️

mumofmad, I don't think that's true at all !!!

Mine is because when I was working in a school, one of the children decided I needed a nickname as Mrs so and so was too "posh" for me! He suggested Retrolady. When I asked him why the Retro part, he said "because you are old, but cool which is what retro means." I was strangely flattered ... I think.

My name and my husbands nickname.

Mine is because I have masses of hair, not as much as my namesake, but a lot nevertheless!

My name isn't Joanna (much nicer than my old-fashioned real name) and it's Cockney rhyming slang for piano.

I had been reading the posts on the site and recognised ' Nellie Moser' as a variety of clematis so I picked Niobe which is a lovely , deep red clematis. When I get my garden sorted I shall get a Niobe to grow somewhere in my garden. PS haven't seen any posts from Nellie recently. Hope she is ok.

I think nellie was in the kitchen or on good morning earlier today!

Family nickname from childhood. Not that appropriate then as I was a scrawny little thing. More appropriate now perhaps!

My family refer to me, unjustly of course, as the Christmas Grump

DS's affectionate name for his mother.
But I haven't got a beard (yet).

Greyduster I had puzzled about that - now I have an explanation (and it's not that you have dusted a very dirty house )

My mum was from Italy. My user name is a nod to the nickname I was given by my Italian grandmother.